Bustle and skikt



UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

H. N. DAGGETT, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUSTLE AND SKIRT.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 20,865, dated July 13, 1858.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANDEL N. DAGGETT, of Attleboro, in the county ofBristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inExpansion Bustles or Skirts; and I do hereby declare that the same isfully described and represented in the following specification and theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view of a skirthaving my invention applied to it, while Fig. 2, is a perspectiverepresentation of it showing its application to the body of a person.

Then a bustle or skirt is furnished, with an adjusting cord applied toit as represented in the specication and drawings of Letters Patent,numbered 17,082 of United States Patents, there is a diliiculty inmaintaining the adjusting cord in a proper position on the back of thewearer, as it is very liable to slip up so that its windings shallgather together into the small of the back and so as to dest-roy orchange the desirable adjustment of the bustle.

The purpose of my invention is to remedy this difficulty. To accomplishthis I apply to the middle part of the waist-band of the skirt, a stoutor stiff and elastic extension therefrom, provided with a series ofholes or eyelets, the same when the skirt is worn being made to projectdown the back or along the spine and receive the adjustable cord,through the said eyelets, they serving to maintain the windings of thecord properly apart around the body and prevent them from slippingupward or getting out of place as described.

In the drawings, A, exhibits an ordinary skirt, of which, al, a, a., arethe hoops, Z), the waist-band, and, o, o, o, the connecting bands.

B represents the adjusting cord as roved through eyelets made in two ofthe adjusting bands. The windings, e, e, e, of said cord are alsocarried through the eyelets of the strut, C, which extends down from thewaist-band and along the back when the skirt is worn on the body of aperson.

I wish it distinctly understood, that I lay no claim to the invention ofthe adjusting cord as applied to a bustle or a skirt, but

The improvement or combination of the back strut, with the bustle orskirt and the adjust-ing lacing such being applied and made to operateas and for the purpose specified.

HANDEL N. DAGGETT. Witnesses:

JOHN DAGGETT, JOHN M. DAGGETT.

